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The United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is reporting world AIDS deaths and new HIV infections have each dropped 21 percent since the peak of the AIDS pandemic, the most optimistic report the group has ever issued.

Michel Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS program, says in a news release, “We have seen a massive scale-up in access to HIV treatment, which has had a dramatic effect on the lives of people everywhere.”

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New York police removed Occupy Wall Street protesters from their Zucotti Park in an early morning raid this week, and it seems the majority of everybody else couldn’t be happier. According to a telephone survey of 1,170 Americans from Poll Position, 54 percent of Americans agreed with New York’s decision to oust the protesters, who’ve been based in the park for the last two months.

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Time will tell whether Rage Against the Machine vocalist Zack de la Rocha’s involvement with the Occupy Movement will find its way into any of his future song lyrics. But for now, the rapper and rocker has written a poem for those who have been motivated into action by corporate greed and the division between those who have and those who have not.

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June 6, 1944. The beginning of the end for what seemed to be a lengthy war already. The Allied invasion was getting ready to begin in France.

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America has lost one of it most beloved broadcasters this weekend, just a month ago Andy Rooney gave his last commentary on the CBS Sunday evening show 60 Minutes and called it a career after being on 60 minutes since 1978 and doing 1,097 commentaries.

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This weekend Oklahoma, the sports world and the world in general lost a true treasure when Bob Barry Sr died. Bob was best know as the "Voice of the Sooners" from 1961-1972, then from 1991-2010, retired as OU's football and basketball play-by-play man in the spring.

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While some rockers including Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello support the Occupy Wall Street movement, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine considers the protest a sham and accuses President Barack Obama of contributing to the turmoil by being “the most divisive president we’ve ever had.”

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Students at Evergreen Park High School in Illinois may be well-advised to avoid excessive water intake — or find themselves with longer school days.

Some teachers there have implemented a policy of allowing each student only three bathroom visits during class each semester. Any subsequent visits require students to make up the class time later in the day.

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An Ohio man who owned an exotic animal farm released his animals to the wild and then committed suicide on Tuesday, according to police.

Farm owner Terry Thompson was found dead in his home near Columbus, OH by the sheriff’s deputies, who say his body had been disturbed by animals. Authorities will not comment on how Thompson killed himself.

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According to a new Gallup poll, 50 percent of American adults favor legalizing marijuana, the highest percentage in Gallup’s 42-year history of asking that question. Forty-six percent of Americans believe marijuana should remain illegal.

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Android users can now download a free app that immediately alerts their family, friends and attorneys when they’re getting arrested. Quadrant 2 developed the I’m Getting Arrested app based on actual events during the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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The Occupy Wall Street movement continues to generate headlines, so what better time to see what Americans actually think of our esteemed financial institutions?

Forty-seven percent of Americans think Wall Street hurts the American economy more than it helps, whereas only 38 percent think the opposite is true.

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